These are my original pieces that I wrote for my mother to use at a church retreat that she is organizing. She also asked me to prepare recordings of several other pieces for her to use, but they aren't of my own composition so I didn't include them here.

I deliberately wrote the four pieces in different styles in order to convey a range of moods, but I also feel that they are all compatible with one another. In particular the musical connection between Revelation 7 and Revelation 14 is strong. (For one verse in particular, my mother wanted an instrumental work that had 'thunder' in it; "Revelation 14" is the result).

I called the entire collection "Revelation(s)" because its a pet peeve of my brother's when people refer to the Biblical book as 'Revelations' (it should be called Revelation--no 's').

Anyway, here's something that I've been up to for the past couple weeks. I hope you enjoy them!

April's been a busy month! I have a lot of music that I've written recently, and more yet to write this week. Towards the beginning of April I was writing music for a Taize service we were having at St. Mark's. Taize is a monastic tradition from France that uses Latin texts and a very acoustic and intimate style of music. Anyway, after getting the music written, copies made and the musicians rehearsed, the service went very well. In fact, so many of the people liked it that Fr Scott says we'll be doing another Taize service again. I'm looking forward to it.

Then, last week I began writing music for a worship retreat that my mother is organizing for her church. I like the songs I've written so far, and maybe I'll post a few of them on this website when I'm done. I'll be finishing all of the songs and recordings of the songs this week.

Also, I'm beginning to get myself, my fellow musicians and my students ready for my Perry Project Spring Recital on May 14th. I think it will be an even better concert than the one in December, so I'm really looking forward to it. I really like the music that we're doing.

And, on top of these things I'm busy keeping the Mesa City Band going until the end of our season in May. Our final concert of the season is May 2nd at Three Fountains Resort.

It's good to be busy! Anyway, I hope to get some more of my compositions up soon.

Today I've added several new flute quartets to my site in a new album titled "Four Flutes". I've been playing with a new flute quartet lately (Connie Backus, Chuck Dick, Elaine Austin, and myself), and I've made some new arrangements for us to play. I also have some more ideas for pieces that I think would work well with a flute quartet and I'll post them on my album page as I complete them. We'll be performing some of these pieces at my Spring Recital in May, so hopefully some of you will be able to see us live.

In other news, I conducted the entire Mesa City Band concert last night at Venture Out (Larry will be out for the rest of the season but is recovering nicely). Anyway, the venue has a beautiful concert hall and it was a pleasure to perform there. The band sounded great and we had a very large audience so it was a very satisfying evening all around.

As a final unrelated thought: this time of year is festival season and I can't help but miss the long rehearsals and preparations of the school bands and orchestras as we got ready to compete. It was always a very satisfying process, and I hope to be involved with school groups again someday. Of course I also miss going to Disneyland with the kids. :-)